Issaquah Sellers: Is Staging Your Home Important?
My experience is yes if you want to sell for top dollar, if you want it to sell fast. However on another blog a Chicago Broker disputes the claim. Click here for the article from Sellsius blog.
Here was my answer to this broker: Well I am dumbfounded by the challenge. Having sold numerous homes and having been in the industry for decades I just take it as a matter of fact the claim is accurate. Perhaps my problem is that my wife is both an accredited stager and a published interior designer. (interior design is not staging) I count on her work as part of my practice. I know the phrase making more money and selling quicker is real with us. I would not say all stagers are equal and especially dispute some of what I see others call staging. Larry Cragun
In other words all staging is not equal.
We sold our home in Issaquah Highlands Ravena last month. It sold in 32 days at full price. Some of our neighbors thought we would have to take less. The home sold in about 1/2 the time similar prices are taking to sell. It sold faster and it sold for top dollar than the market.
Kathleen wrote some articles on IssaquahUndressed.com you may have missed or should review. Here is the link to them all. CLick here:
This will give you a flavor:
Can you go from this:
To this: ………………………………………………………………………… In 6 days?!??????????????
Yes, I know the room isn’t the same but the concept is. My kitchen didn’t look as bad as this office (Larry’s) but I don’t recommend trying to get your home ready for sale in six days. As I preach in my staging articles Fix In, Fix Out, Clean Up, Clean Out and all that entails, is generally more than one (or two) can do in such a short time. What I wouldn’t give for Harry Potter’s magic wand! Nevertheless, our home is for sale. An opportunity arose and we had to strike.
This brought to my mind that I had promised one more staging article on “Showing Your Home”. After you have done all that stuff I suggested in my posts, http://www.issaquahundressed.com/tags/staging-your-home-for-sale/, each day your home is for sale you should set the stage.
1. Tidy up, make beds, no dishes in the sink, spic & span, no tooth brushes on the counter, most of you know the drill. Isn’t this what your mother always made you do (or wished you would do). Floof and Poof to perfection as one of my employers said.
2. Open blinds, etc, so light fills the room, unless it is summer and it would just get too hot.
3. Turn on strategic lights that make your home look its best.
